70.1999: Rhythmus I
PhotographsThe collage is of four black and white photographs. Each photograph is of two frames of a film strip with sprocket holes visible and the manufacturer’s name, Agfa, shown in reverse on the top two. In all four there are light colored horizontal rectangles with either one or two thin, dark horizontal and/or vertical rectangles. Dark shadows obscure the edges or the centers of several of the squares.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 70.1999
- People
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Hans Richter, American (Berlin, Germany 1888 - 1976 Locarno, Switzerland)
- Title
- Rhythmus I
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- c. 1922
- Places
- Creation Place: Europe, Germany
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/173028
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Collage of four gelatin silver prints
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 13 x 3.4 cm (5 1/8 x 1 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: verso, center, in blue pencil: H. Richter
- inscription: verso, center, blue pencil, German, in artist's hand: H. Richter [over] Rhythmus I
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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Prakapas Gallery, Bronxville, NY, sold to lender, 1999.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan
- Object Number
- 70.1999
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- 32Q: 1520 Art in Germany Between the Wars (Interwar and Bauhaus), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/11/2019 - 06/03/2021
Verification Level
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